guides

The tradecraft practice of syncing your movements with a city’s natural rhythms, like transit surges, market spikes,...

A tradecraft deception method where an operative creates multiple believable mission narratives through movements, materials, and contact...

Living a double life is about control, precision, and keeping your lies cleaner than your truths. To...

The covert operative guide to converting a hotel room into a temporary field office to operate from,...

The escape/evasion tradecraft of shifting between hard, soft, and ghost exit tactics stay ahead of collapse and...

In high-risk and non-permissive areas, your tongue is your first weapon and your last shield. A tight...

PERSEC isn’t just for operatives working in hostile environments – it’s for anyone who wants to navigate...

Cool isn’t about trying hard, it’s about never needing to. The coolest person in the room doesn’t...

Information leaks out of your body without you talking. Tradecraft isn’t just about watching what you say,...

Being exposed, verbally or otherwise, isn’t always the end of the op. It’s just the start of...

You want to raise smart, resilient, mission-ready humans that you can control? Treating your kids like they’re...

A covert operative’s guide to owning any given urban street in real time as a professional on...